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Perhaps you could contact them or some other adult sites and see if you can find out how they are getting around the rules?

If that is true, then the citizens of every country that has ever existed have never been truly free, for our "freedom" was purchased by the blood of our soldiers.

NB: I am not trying to hijack the thread -- my original post was simply to give Aiken, et. al., my support and gratitude for this site!
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There are ways around everything. One word isn't going to make a difference. These people really need to understand that.
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Oh fer crissake... Find me a wall to go bang my head on.

I don't mean to sound rude, but how is this helpful?

ahh yes, similar to AOL not allowing people from Scunthorpe to register cos there filter wouldn't allow the town name
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Has anyone contacted the NCSF? This would be right down their alley.

http://www.ncsfreedom.org/

The ACLU (aclu.org) and the Electronic Frontier FOundation (eff.org) are also champions of free speech.

There would appear to be legal precedent supporting our right to say what we want on some private property; I hope that's a given and understood. What's unclear, as near as I can tell, is whether a company like Visa can interfere with the right of free speech made by its customers.

"After applying the Schmid test, the New Jersey Supreme Court reasoned in New Jersey Coalition that because the mall owners "have intentionally transformed their property into a public square or market, a public gathering place, a downtown business district, a community," they cannot later deny their own implied invitation to use the space as it was clearly intended."

--http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/assembly/topic.aspx?topic=private_property

In that sense, I believe Visa has similar obligations as a part of that "public gathering place."

"... 'Freedom of the press from governmental interference under the First Amendment does not sanction repression of that freedom by private interests.'" Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 U.S. 367, 392 (quoting Associated Press v. United States, 326 U.S. 1, 20) ..."
--http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=546

If I can help in any way, contct me.

That's where the third cite I listed comes in, I believe. I could easily be wrong on that... my head's swimming in politics right now. And I feel like I'm going down for the fifth time.

Erik

Can you imagine how may variations on spelling and masking could be derived from those words? Not to mention other words that essentially say the same thing. Visa is not gonna like the term 6 year old any better than lolita... it will just take them longer to figure it out.

Just brainstorming here but I wonder what the combined revenue is from the effected businesses and if there is any way to band together with a single middleman for leverage?
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